Research Focus

Dr. Price is the Director of the University of South Carolina Instrumentation Resource Facility (IRF) which is a biotechnology core that houses a wide range of instrumentation including confocal and electron microscopes, cell sorters, and small animal imaging systems. A full listing of the equipment and capabilities of the IRF can be found at http://dba.med.sc.edu/price/irf/irf.htm. Dr. Price’s primary expertise is in confocal and electron microscopy. He has received several awards from local and national microscopy societies including the Southeast Microscopy Society Distinguished Scientist Award and the Microscopy Society of America Distinguished Service Award. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Microscopy and Microanalysis which is the journal of the Microscopy Society of America. He has also organized and taught numerous national and international confocal microscopy workshops and Springer recently published a book by Dr. Price and Dr. Jay Jerome of Vanderbilt University entitled “Basic Confocal Microscopy” based on these workshops.